Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: Ministers of Finance champion investment in Early Years — through the Global Finance Facility Shawn K. Baker, director of nutrition at the Gates Foundation; Mariam Claeson, director of the Global Financing Facility; and Julie McLaughlin, adviser to the vice president for human development…

Business Insider: Bill Gates: we’re witnessing ‘one of the greatest success stories in the history of global health’ “…In the past 15 years, the rate of malaria deaths has dropped 57 percent, according to a Bill & Melinda Gates-backed study published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine. In…

Medium: 5 Reasons I’m Optimistic About the Future of Our Girls Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “On International Day of the Girl, we recognize the unique challenges millions of girls face. And we celebrate the ways in which girls change the world when they overcome…

Seattle Times: Bill Gates urges political leaders: Don’t forget to strive for ‘life-changing’ goals “…In a post Thursday on his Gates Notes blog, [Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill] Gates said he’s been thinking recently about a topic he says Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have not addressed in detail: ‘what…

Devex: New U.N. Women, Gates Foundation partnership takes on gender data “…Women and girls are routinely not counted in global and national data collected on health, education, political participation, and human security, according to the U.N. Foundation-led organization Data2X. … U.N. Women, the U.N. entity for gender equality, is now…

The Guardian: Vasectomies: turning an ‘act of love’ into a global movement “…World Vasectomy Day … is … an effort to secure men’s engagement [in family planning], using modern innovations that can accelerate progress. … [Y]et, for all its virtues, vasectomy is still an uncommon practice in the developing world…

Agence France-Presse: Mixed report for global health progress “The world has made progress in curbing infant mortality, stunted growth, and other poverty-driven problems, while obesity, alcohol abuse, and partner violence has risen, a major review of U.N. health goals said Wednesday…” (Le Roux, 9/21). Bloomberg News: America Is Not the…

Macleans: Melinda Gates on sexism, contraceptives, and global development “…The [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation] has just pledged US$80 million over three years to improve data collection on the situation of women and girls in the world. The 52-year-old philanthropist spoke with L’actualité magazine ahead of a Montreal conference later…